Thursday, July 28, 2005
Panasonic LX1 Preview Sample Gallery Posted
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 05:00 AM
Panasonic had announced the world's first wide angle compact camera with a 16:9 ratio CCD last week. The fully manual Lumix DMC-LX1 offers a 8.6 megapixel 1 /1.65" CCD and is the first camera in the LUMIX 16:9 wide LX series.
Dpreview.com now has several sample pictures. I find it cool that taking these 16:9 ratio images basically gives people panoramic pictures for free, i.e. you are getting all those extra pixels. However, Jason correctly pointed out (we were chatting about these images yesterday) that most people might have to end up re-thinking the way they take pictures, especially close-up portrait style photos. I guess this camera will lead to a lot of cropping of images to make them fit in those already existing photo-frames.
Dpreview.com now has several sample pictures. I find it cool that taking these 16:9 ratio images basically gives people panoramic pictures for free, i.e. you are getting all those extra pixels. However, Jason correctly pointed out (we were chatting about these images yesterday) that most people might have to end up re-thinking the way they take pictures, especially close-up portrait style photos. I guess this camera will lead to a lot of cropping of images to make them fit in those already existing photo-frames.
